Driving Continuous Improvement
Find a vast array of advanced scrum topics and patterns that can increase your Team’s Velocity. Online courses and classes for Scrum Masters, Scrum Product Owners, and those team members seeking continuous improvement. If you’re not a member, visit our pricing and plans page for more detail.
Patterns: Finish Early, Accelerate Faster
Finish Early, Accelerate Faster (FEAF) is a Scrum pattern language composed of a number of Scrum Patterns used together. FEAF is an incredibly powerful pattern language because it will help new Teams establish good practices and take experienced Teams Hyper-Productive; defined as a Velocity 400% higher than a Teams’ initial Velocity.
Scrum Retrospectives
One of the core principles in Scrum is the idea of continuous improvement. Each Sprint the Team engages in an inspect-and-adapt cycle during the Retrospective meeting. Beyond that though, the Scrum Guide doesn’t offer much insight into how to run a successful Retrospective and how to use the meeting to improve production, quality, and velocity.
All Continuous Improvement Topics
New Leadership Workshop for Agile Executives
One of the biggest obstacles in transitioning to Scrum and Agile practices is management understanding and support. Scrum Inc. is now offering a course for managers and executives to help them make that switch As more and more companies realize they can’t compete...
Yet Another Waterfall Project Failure
California Scraps Massive Courts Software Project By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News California's Judicial Council has put the brakes on a long-running, massive software project that was supposed to modernize the state's trial courts case-management systems, saying the...
Sustainable Pace – why it’s important
Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity - Alternet by Sara Robinson One hundred fifty years of research proves that shorter work hours actually raise productivity and profits -- and overtime destroys them. So why do we still do this? March 13,...
Leading vs. Managing in a Scrum Environment
Alex Brown, Scrum Inc.'s Product Owner and COO, had some thoughts on the role of management in Scrum, as he's been working on a workshop for executives for the past month or so. - jj It’s odd. A number of people have told us recently they don’t think management has a...
Answering Some Questions
Jeff had a great webinar hosted by SmartBear last Thursday. If you missed it, here's the link to the archived webinar and the slides. We got hundreds of questions from the audience, and SmartBear sent fifteen of them on, they'll be posting all of them on their site...
How The C-Suite Hurts America
Steve Denning, one of the smartest guys today thinking about management and how companies are run, just pointed out a new Harvard Business Review article which should be required reading: If some progressive journal were to write about overpaid CEOs, it wouldn’t be...
Force Yourself To Be Better: Strengthen Your Sprint Retrospective
Here at Scrum Inc. we've been thinking a lot about two things: impediments and the Sprint Retrospective. These are really where the rubber meets the road in terms of improving productivity. We'll have a later post on impediments, but I wanted to share this excerpt...
The Dangers of Not Being Done, Or Ready For That Matter
On March 8, Jeff will be giving a webinar hosted by SmartBear software. As we put together the presentation, one of the re-current themes of good Scrum came up. Getting stories ready, and getting things done. We've also been working on a new book we're calling "The...
The Maxwell Curve: Getting more production by working less!
Recently I was coaching teams at OpenView Venture Partners and Scott Maxwell, the founding partner, jumped up and said, “Jeff, I want to show you the Maxwell Curve! Here is what we have learned by running Scrum internally with teams of venture capitalists making...
Scrum Assessment Checklist
Several people have asked me for the Scrum Checklist we have used for years, created by Henrik Kniberg at Crisp in Stockholm. The earlier version was a mindmap. The current version is a Scrum Checklist. I've used it for assessment in OpenView Venture Partners...
6 Agile Ways To Increase Employee Engagement
Organizations who utilize Agile ways of working experience a 20-30% improvement in employee engagement. Engage, Equip & Empower your employees.
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